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The latitude variation of water vapor on Mars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Robert G. Tull
Robert G. Tull*
Affiliation:
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Tex. U.S.A.

Abstract

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Spectra of Mars, centered on the 8200 Å band of H2O, have been obtained using the coudé spectrograph of the 107-inch telescope at McDonald Observatory with reciprocal dispersion of 1.9 Å/mm. The plate scale (4.4 arc sec/mm) and angular resolution (3″–6″) were sufficient to measure the strength of the Doppler-shifted H2O lines at 5 points across the disk.

The spectra were obtained in March and April 1969, when the apparent diameter of Mars was 10″ to 16″ during mid-summer of the northern hemisphere; the Doppler shift at 8200 Å varied from –0.42 Å to –0.28 Å. On the first plate, obtained on March 27, 1969 the abundance reached a maximum of about 48 μ precipitable H2O at 30° to 40° north latitude and decreased to about 20 μ at 30° south latitude. The second plate, taken on April 28, 1969 showed the same north-south decrease in abundance but the total amounts were about two-thirds of the March abundances.

Type
Part II: Mars
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 40: Planetary Atmospheres , 1971 , pp. 237 - 240
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1971 

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